Another take on Fangoria's Weekend of Horror's...

Hi everyone,

I did NOT write the following, and it was originally posted on SC's lists, but
I wanted to share what my favorite indy studio (Seduction Cinema) had to say
about the latest convention...

Kelly

MISTY MUNDAE & RACHAEL ROBBINS @ WEEKEND OF HORRORS 2004

February 9 – 11 saw the annual (East Coast) Fangoria's "Weekend of
Horrors" convention unfold in grand and exciting style once again,
this time at the Meadowlands Sheraton, in East Rutherford, NJ – its
first at this location. It's also the first time that Chiller
Theatre, who runs its own spectacular semi-annual fan shows at this
very same location, in April and October, has taken on the role of
promoter for the "Weekend of Horrors." The Fangoria show has always
been one of the most popular and eagerly anticipated fan shows over
the years, and the new venue – along with a great guest list,
multiple film screenings, and an entertaining schedule of events,
appearances and previews in the spacious auditorium – succeeded in
attracting a steady stream of horror fanatics who braved the
weekend's sub-zero temperatures. Go to www.Fangoria.com and click
on "Special Events" to see the full line-up of guests and goings-on.

ei Cinema was on hand throughout the convention to promote the Shock-
O-Rama Cinema label and its first in-house produced horror film to be
released to home video on March 30 – Brett Piper's haunted insane
asylum creep-fest SCREAMING DEAD, starring Rachael Robbins, Misty
Mundae, Joseph Farrell, Heidi Kristoffer, Rob Monkiewicz, Kevin G.
Shinnick and CJ DiMarsico. On Friday evening, at 9:30 p.m., Shock-O-
Rama was afforded the honor of screening SCREAMING DEAD to a packed
captive audience. The event began with an introduction by Tony
Timpone – Fangoria's longtime editor – followed by a few brief,
welcoming words from ei Cinema president Michael Raso. Then the
lights went down, and trailers for upcoming Shock-O-Rama films BITE
ME! (Brett Piper's second film for Shock-O-Rama), SKIN CRAWL,
SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE and DRACULA ran. SCREAMING DEAD hit the screen
next. For the ensuing 90 minutes, the audience thoroughly enjoyed
the story of a renowned sleaze photographer who lures three beautiful
models to an abandoned insane asylum – a derelict old building
purportedly haunted by the ghost of the depraved industrialist who
built it – for a photographic "study in terror"…a photo shoot that
quickly goes to hell!

Immediately after the screening, stars Misty Mundae and Rachael
Robbins and writer/director Brett Piper appeared on-stage for a Q & A
session. A Shock-O-Rama film crew documented the Friday night event
and gathered fan and participant interviews for a mini-featurette
earmarked for the SCREAMING DEAD DVD.

Misty and Rachael spent Friday evening and Saturday and Sunday show
hours at the Shock-O-Rama Cinema booth meeting and greeting ,
autographing SCREAMING DEAD posters and limited edition 8x10's;
posing for photos; and generally promoting the upcoming March release
of the Piper horror flick as only two talented, beautiful and
personable women can!

On Saturday, a film crew from New York City's Kaufman Films visited
the show to record interviews for an epic horror film documentary
slated to run over five consecutive nights in October 2004 on the
Bravo cable network. Misty Mundae and Rachael Robbins, along with
Chelsea Mundae, were offered invitations to take part in this
ambitious project. The documentary, THE 100 SCARIEST SCENES OF ALL
TIME, is being co-produced by Fangoria's Tony Timpone and the Bravo
Network, and will feature interviews with legendary directors,
producers, writers, actors and rising talent in the horror film
world, backed, of course, by extensive clips from classic films from
the United States, Japan, Canada, Italy and France. Misty, Rachael
and Chelsea were each interviewed at length and asked to expound upon
what they consider the scariest scenes from some of the classic, cult
and legendary films represented on the master list – a list
painstakingly compiled by the Kaufman, Bravo and Timpone. A
documentary of this kind – which explores and pays tribute to the
greatest fright flicks of all time and the masters who created them –
has long been overdue, and Shock-O-Rama Cinema eagerly looks forward
to seeing its own stars in the finished project, one that seems
destined to be a horror fan's dream come true.

Many thanks to Fangoria editor Tony Timpone and managing editor
Michael Gingold for all their help and support in making the
SCREAMING DEAD evening a special one for Shock-O-Rama Cinema and all
the enthusiastic fans who were given the sneak-peek opportunity.
Thanks, too, to Kevin Clement and the Chiller Theatre crew for
putting on a great show.